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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Floating With Women In Cinema At The Hotel du Cap & Breaking Into The Mubi/Match Factory Soiree


Deadline's Baz Bamigboye is at the Cannes Film Festival and writes about the Women in Cinema event and how he broke into the Mubi/Match Factory soiree

I cased the dining room and observed that the trio of deserts — strawberry and elderflower profiterole, bergamot cheesecake and chocolate pecan tart — remained untouched where they’d been seated. In any case, I was enjoying listening to Chadha and Taghioff discuss the delicate balance of trying to mix Western and South Asian cultures on screen. This year I became that appalling person who skipped the line and went to the front and asked the bouncers to find someone in charge to let me — and Kyle Buchanan, who writes “The Projectionist” column for The New York Times — into the event.

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